Leon Taylor

The family will be at Bratcher Funeral Home for visitation from 5:00 – 7:00 P.M., Sunday, March 11, 2012.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M., Monday, March 12, 2012 at Bratcher Funeral Home Chapel. Masonic rites will be performed by the Billie Mosse Lodge #1152. Pallbearers will be Everett Taylor, Jr., Levi Carter Murphy, Dudley Barden, Gary Hillis, Doug Hannickel and Richard Almaguer.

Burial will be at 2:00 P.M. at Fillmore Cemetery in Fillmore, Oklahoma.

Leon was born September 24, 1926 in Greenwood, Texas, the son of Charley G. Taylor and Iva Lela Jones Taylor. He married Alice G. Murphy in Pampa, Texas on May 11, 1958. He was a member of Unity Baptist Church; a truck driver for Walton Transportation; owned and operated a Dairy Queen and Watsonburger in Tishomingo, Oklahoma; served in the Navy during WWII on the USS L.S.T. 119 and served in the Korean War in the Army.

He is survived by wife Alice of Denison; sons Everett Taylor & wife Hilda of Bells, Texas, James M. Taylor of Dallas, Texas; sister Freda Langford of Pampa, Texas; 8 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Arrangements are entrusted to Bratcher Funeral Home, 401 W. Woodard St., Denison, TX 75020 (903) 465-2323. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.bratcherfuneralhome.com.